EPHS at a Glance

Our school, which opened in 1954, is located in Elmwood Park, Ill., a Near West suburb of Chicago.

With a total faculty and staff of 92 employees and an average class size of 18 students, EPHS provides core, honors, Advanced Placement and dual-credit academic programming. We also support instruction for students with special education, English Learner, 504 and other special needs.

Elmwood Park High School's Mission Statement

The faculty, staff, administration and Board of Education of Elmwood Park High School are committed to providing a comprehensive high school education which, through its curricular and extracurricular programs, meets the individual and collective interests and needs of its students and prepares them to be productive citizens of a diverse, global and interdependent society.

In particular, this learning community is committed to the flexible teaching and scheduling patterns and resources necessary to stretch each student to the limits of his/her academic and personal potential, and to providing the knowledge, problem solving and personal skills required for post-secondary education, employment, leisure and family life.

Graduates should be grounded in our American heritage of respect for human dignity and optimism regarding their role in improving the quality of life for all people.

► Students (11th Graders) Exceeding or Meeting the Proficiency Level on the SAT

EPHS: 37 percent (6 percent exceeding, 31 percent meeting)

State Average: 39 percent (11 percent exceeding, 28 percent meeting)

See below for explanations of meeting and exceeding SAT proficiency standards.

► Students (11th Graders) Exceeding Standards on the SAT

EPHS: 6 percent

State Average: 11 percent

"Exceeding standards" means the student has exceeded the proficiency level and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the knowledge and skills needed relative to the Illinois Learning Standards.

► Students (11th Graders) Meeting Standards on the SAT

EPHS: 31 percent

State Average: 28 percent

"Meeting standards" means the student has met the proficiency level and demonstrates adequate understanding of the knowledge and skills needed relative to the Illinois Learning Standards.

► Students (11th Graders) Approaching Standards on the SAT

EPHS: 43 percent

State Average: 35 percent

"Approaching standards" means the student is approaching the proficiency level and demonstrates an incomplete understanding of the knowledge and skills needed relative to the Illinois Learning Standards.

► Students (11th Graders) Partially Meeting Standards on the SAT

EPHS: 20 percent

State Average: 27 percent

"Partially meeting standards" means the student has only partially met the standards and demonstrates a minimal understanding of the knowledge and skills needed relative to the Illinois Learning Standards.

As of spring 2017, all 11th-grade students attending public high schools, including public charter schools, will take the SAT as part of a school day at no charge.

The SAT is an admission test accepted by all U.S. colleges and is intended to determine a student’s level of college readiness in the academic subjects of Math and English Language Arts.

As the required Illinois high school state assessment, the SAT will fulfill the requirement that students take an assessment for college and career readiness in order to receive a regular high school diploma, unless eligible to take the alternative assessment or otherwise exempt from testing. The SAT will also fulfill the requirement that high school students must take an assessment accepted for student admission to intuitions of higher education.

The SAT will be used for school and District accountability requirements.